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Some good points here, but one quib­ble — I tend to make ‘screen saver’ links and lists to images I want to dis­play and share. Dig­i­tal devices are every­where now so my favourite shots are now on my ther­mo­stat, kitchen Apple TV, com­put­er back­grounds, Tablet back­grounds, etc.

The sad part is that few of these pho­tographs will sur­vive beyond a year. To many peo­ple, a “pic­ture” is only good for the moment. Moms and Dads want to snap every lit­tle move­ment of that new baby. Grand­ma wants to see every­one one of those too. When you want to show off the new pup­py, you pull out the phone. And in a week, none of them have any real mean­ing and might even get “delet­ed” just to make room for more pic­tures that have lit­tle mean­ing as well inside of a cou­ple of weeks.So what will become of all the pic­tures that are being tak­en today? Here is the rea­son that 99% of the pho­tographs being tak­en today are soon going to be total­ly gone – dig­i­tal images are no longer impor­tant enough to most peo­ple to actu­al­ly keep them in print­ed form!

To The Mun – a screen­shot I loved from about a year ago. But then I thought, hey, I won­der what a retro image would look like, then the theme of a vin­tage mis­sion sound­track album – like the kind you could get back in the ’70s like this: imgur.com/ddtJoJs

His point is a great one. If you are only shoot­ing when you plan to shoot you end up bring far too much stuff with you. You end up bring­ing a cou­ple of extra lens­es, maybe you should include a flash, what about a tri­pod, etc. By the time you are done you have way too much gear. Don’t mak­ing tak­ing pho­tos too hard. Always car­ry your cam­era with you and shoot what is in front of you.

Start­ing off the new year is always a time for reflec­tion. This lit­tle video reminds me why we per­se­vere in any artis­tic or crafts­man-like endeav­or, be it card-mak­ing, craft­ing, pho­tog­ra­phy, or paint­ing.